In Bahrain’s season opening race, Alpine driver Ocon was penalised for incorrectly positioning his automotive in his grid slot.
The identical factor occurred to Aston Martin’s Alonso in Saudi Arabia, because the Spaniard was given a five-second time penalty for beginning too far to the left of his field. Nonetheless, Alonso nonetheless completed on the rostrum behind winner Sergio Perez and his Purple Bull team-mate Verstappen after a penalty for serving his initial penalty incorrectly was revoked.
The Dutchman sympathised with Alonso and Ocon as a result of the dearth of visibility from the present crop of vehicles makes lining up for the right grid spot arduous to do.
The longer noses, bigger tyres and the addition of wheelbrows on immediately’s vehicles have had the side-effect of limiting a driver’s imaginative and prescient even additional than was already the case in a typical single-seater.
“The visibility is simply actually poor within the automotive, that’s most likely the primary concern the place you find yourself typically not absolutely accurately in your field,” the two-time world champion mentioned.
“It’s painful when it occurs however it is a bit the identical with the white line with observe limits. Typically you argue: did you achieve something going vast or not, going outdoors of it?
“I believe at one level we do want a rule. It seems to be actually foolish if individuals begin to benefit from going actually left and proper however I do not know what we are able to do higher.”
Perez concurred, explaining there’s a component of luck concerned in hitting your marks.
“It is actually troublesome simply to see the place you’ve stopped,” he mentioned, admitting he even stopped earlier to be on the secure facet.
Sergio Perez, Purple Bull Racing RB19, Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR23, George Russell, Mercedes F1 W14, the remainder of the sector at first
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“In my view I simply overdid it and I finished too early, however you don’t have any concept when you find yourself within the automotive. You do not know in the event you went too far behind or too far ahead.
“We want higher visibility to have the ability to give you a greater concept than we presently have it.
“It is good that there’s a rule in place, however on the similar time typically it is like luck, to be sincere, the place you place your self.”
Mercedes driver and GPDA director George Russell referred to as for “frequent sense” as he found Alonso’s penalty too extreme.
“It is extremely troublesome,” reported Russell.
“We’re sat so low and to place some perspective, we solely see most likely the highest 4 or 5 inches of the tyre so you’ll be able to’t really see the bottom itself.
“We have got these large lengthy yellow strains declaring… I can not even see the yellow line, not to mention the white strains figuring out your lateral place.
“It’s actually, actually powerful in order that’s why I believe on this regard we have to present just a little bit extra frequent sense.”
